Mario Mikulincer

Mario Mikulincer is Professor of Psychology and Dean of the New School of Psychology at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzlyia. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and was awarded the 2004 Psychology EMET prize for Arts, Science, & Culture.

Research Interests

• Attachment styles in adulthood
• Terror Management Theory
• Personality processes in interpersonal relationships
• Evolutionary psychology
• Human learned helplessness and depression
• Trauma and post-traumatic processes
• Coping with stress
• Qualitative research of emotional states
• Mental rumination and self-focused attention.

Journal Articles:

Mikulincer, M., Dolev, T., & Shaver, P. R. (2004). Attachment-Related Strategies During Thought-Suppression: Ironic Rebounds and Vulnerable Self-Representations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 940-956. Mikulincer, M., Florian, V., & Hirschberger, G. (2003). The existential function of close relationships – Introducing death into the science of love. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 7, 20-40. Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (2005). Attachment security, compassion, and altruism. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14,34-38. Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (2005). Attachment theory and emotions in close relationships: Exploring the attachment-related dynamics of emotional reactions to relational events. Personal Relationships, 12, 149-168. Mikulincer, M, & Shaver, P. R. (2003). The Attachment behavioral system in adulthood: activation, psychodynamics, and interpersonal processes. In M. P. Zanna (ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (Vol. 35, pp. 53-152). New York: Academic Press. Mikulincer, M., Shaver, P. R., & Pereg, D. (2003). Attachment Theory and Affect Regulation: The Dynamics, Development, and Cognitive Consequences of Attachment-Related Strategies. Motivation and Emotion, 27, 77-102. Pereg, D., & Mikulincer, M. (2004). Attachment style and the regulation of negative affect – Exploring individual differences in mood congruency effects on memory and judgment. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 67-80. Rom, E., & Mikulincer, M. (2003). Attachment theory and group processes: The association between attachment style and group-related representations, goals, memories, and functioning. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 1220-1235. Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (2005). Attachment Theory and Research: Resurrection of the Psychodynamic Approach to Personality. Journal of Research in Personality, 39, 22-45. Other Publications:

Florian, V., & Mikulincer, M. (2004). A multifaceted perspective on the existential meanings, manifestations, and consequences of the fear of personal death. In J. Greenberg, S. L. Koole, & T. Pyszczynski (eds.), Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology (pp. 54-70). New York: Guilford. Mikulincer, M., Florian, V., & Hirschberger, G. (2004). The terror of death and the quest for love – An existential perspective on close relationships. In J. Greenberg, S. L. Koole, & T. Pyszczynski (eds.), Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology (pp. 287-304). New York: Guilford. Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (2005). Mental representations of attachment security: Theoretical foundation for a positive social psychology. In M. W. Baldwin (ed.), Interpersonal Cognition (pp. 233-266). New York: Guilford Press. Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (2004). Security-based self-representations in adulthood: Contents and processes. In W. S. Rholes & J. A. Simpson (eds.), Adult attachment: Theory, research, and clinical implications (pp. 159-195). New York: Guilford Press. Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (2004). What do self-report attachment measures assess? In W. S. Rholes & J. A. Simpson (eds.), Adult attachment: Theory, research, and clinical implications (pp. 17-54). New York: Guilford Press. Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (2003). The Psychodynamics of Social Judgments: An Attachment Theory Perspective. In Forgas, J. P., Williams, K. D., & von Hippel, W. (eds.), Social judgments: Implicit and explicit processes (pp. 85-114). London, UK: Cambridge University Press.